University Assessment (Amendment) Regulations, 2013

L.N. 299 of 2013

EDUCATION ACT

(CAP. 327)

University Assessment (Amendment) Regulations, 2013

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred upon him by articles 74(5) and

75(6) of the Education Act (Cap. 327), the Chancellor of the University of Malta

has promulgated the following regulations made by the Senate of the University of

Malta by virtue of the powers conferred upon it by articles 75 (3) and 79 (b) of the

said Act

Citation

These regulations may be cited as the University Assessment (Amendment)

Regulations, 2013 and shall be read and construed as one with the University

Assessment Regulations, 2009, published as Legal Notice 274 of 2009, hereinafter

referred to as “the principal regulations”.

Applicability

These regulations shall be applicable from 3 rd May, 2013 onwards.

Amendment to regulation 39 of the principal regulations

For sub-paragraph (b) (i) of paragraph (1) of regulation 39 of the principal

regulations there shall be substituted the following

“(b) (i) engage in plagiarism - defined as the unacknowledged use, as one’s

own, of work of another person, whether or not such work has been published, and as

may be further elaborated in Faculty or University guidelines,

provided that in the case of work by two or more students that is substantially

identical, plagiarism shall be deemed to have occurred even if the original source

remains undetermined;”

Amendment to regulation 40 of the principal regulations

For regulation 40 of the principal regulations there shall be substituted the

following

“40. When students are alleged to have committed a breach of any of the

provisions in regulation 39, a report shall be made in writing to the Secretary of the

University Assessment Disciplinary Board, and such reports shall be referred to the

Assessment Disciplinary Board appointed by Senate.”

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